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Pittsburgher in London. Tired. he/him
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Actions that do great immediate harm and have no credible path to making the world better, are not excused by someone shouting a slogan you like beforehand, or having some symbolic resonance with a sympathetic cause. All the sneering at consequentialist reasoning has driven some people off a cliff.

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

I love this app most of the time but every time there is violence against Jews in the United States there are two options: say nothing or disable interactions it’s pretty bleak

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

as near as i can tell, this got me on multiple lists, one describing me as a supporter of genocide and another as someone who shows glee over the suffering of marginalized folks

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

“Biden is a robot” people need to talk to the “Biden is senile” people

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Putting the Michael Scott in Scottish nationalism

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Surprises like new investment are great for a politician who wants a day of good headlines. But they are terrible for encouraging private investment, which needs stable, boring, policy.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

The range of use of the word "dramstik" for "chicken leg" ("drumstick") in Poland This time rarely instead of 19th c. partitions and post-WW2 migrations typical on Polish regionalism maps, you can see the areas where Polish-Americans in Chicago are largely from, likely result of repatriation. 🐦🐦

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Why I like stealth games, but hate stealth sections in other games

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

RIP to the composer who was so essential to the texture of The Simpsons for over 20 years. i've enjoyed episodes since he left, but i can say without a doubt the background music is now terrible to the point of being distracting (it's shocking they don't even try to emulate Clausen's style)

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Oh man, RIP

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

properly that should be GRL/LONDOGRL

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

really shitting on his in-laws here

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

A lot of people know about the Germans in the space program, but the more relevant engineer might be Qian Xuesen, the MIT/CalTech aerospace professor who co-founded JPL and was sent to recruit the Germans. We deported him the 1950s. He became the leader of China’s missile program.

submitted 2 days ago • 73 comments